Hannah Corbett, former Communications Director of Simon & Schuster, has been appointed to develop publicity at Salt. She will start at the end of April.

“We're delighted to be working with someone as talented as Hannah," says Salt Director Jen Hamilton-Emery. "She brings enormous depth of experience from her senior positions at Simon & Schuster and Random House and will be a major asset to the team here at Salt. It's an enormous step forward for the business as we continue to develop our list on the back of recent prize successes.”

Hannah Corbett says, "Salt are a passionate team producing beautiful books and I am thrilled to have the opportunity to work with them helping to develop high-profile publicity campaigns and contributing to their exciting development as a leading independent publisher."

Hannah will lead campaigns across all new book publishing at Salt, working closely with authors, agents and booksellers and will play an important role in developing the Norfolk-based publisher's award-winning list. She will continue to work as an independent publicist on other projects as Hannah Corbett PR.